After watching The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug I quickly realized my initial estimation for the amount of gold under the mountain was WAY too low. There are some other things I noticed, but ...

Mike Seymour of Wired, narrates this new The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies video showcasing the digital effects that Weta's artists constructed for the Lonely Mountain battle sequences ...

The accuracy of the age that Dwarves live to is a little tricky as a lot of them die in battle, and don't live on until they die of natural causes. Gimli went to the west when he was 262 years old.

Hit the jump to check out The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug character designs for various Orcs, Azog's Lieutenant, Thranduil, Elven Palace Guards and Evangeline Lilly's Tauriel.

Using these values, I get a gold-volume of 39.6 m 3.I'm just going to guess that this is one of about 4 piles of gold. Yes, these are crazy guesses, but I have to start somewhere.

The 'Hobbit' returns: New movie art reveals 'Desolation of Smaug' Legolas — otherwise known as actor Orlando Bloom — is back, and to no one's surprise, he still knows how to wield a bow.

There, untold piles of gold and priceless baubles are tucked away, the promise of which soon turns the dwarf ringleader Thorin (Richard Armitage) into a blindly greedy monster not unlike Humphrey ...

The Hobbit is about hiking and trying to stay out of troubleElizabeth Lopatto: So, I haven’t read The Hobbit in a while, but there are whole swaths of this movie I do not recall being in the ...

The Hobbit films may come with the digital wizardry expected from a Peter Jackson production, but the transformative magic began in the hands of the films' makeup artists. Janetta Mackay reports.

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." — J.R.R. Tolkien Each year, I swear I will never do this again. And yet, for the third year in a ...